Gentlemanly Capitalism, Imperialism and Global HistoryS. Akita British imperial history can now be seen as a bridge to global history. This study tries to renew the debate on British imperialism by combining Western and Asian historiography and constructing a new global history as an aid to the understanding of globalization in the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Part One takes a predominantly metropolitan view of the globalizing forces unleashed by British imperialism; Part Two focuses on the international order of East Asia and its connection with gentlemanly capitalism. |
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Gentlemanly Capitalism and the Making | 19 |
the Global Context | 43 |
Empire Imperialism and the Partition of Africa | 65 |
Gentlemanly Imperialism and the British Empire | 83 |
Gentlemanly and NotsoGentlemanly Imperialism | 103 |
a Chinese | 123 |
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